R&D Magazine Lauds Xerox Freeflow VI Software Suite
Software's specialty imaging features named among top 100 innovations of 2007
The creation of counterfeit event tickets, birth certificates and identification cards is big business. However, since last summer, the specialty imaging features of Xerox's FreeFlow® VI Suite have been helping print providers and the businesses they serve combat this vexing problem.
Now, a leading industry publication has taken note of FreeFlow software's document authentication features. R&D Magazine, a leading journal in the research and development community, honored the FreeFlow VI software suite of technologies with a R&D 100 Award as "one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of the year."
The FreeFlow suite includes four unique fonts that can create individualized text, lines and images that help discourage counterfeiting. Print providers and graphic designers can choose to add one or more of the fonts to any document to create multiple layers of security.
The Specialty Fonts are backed by three patents with several other applications pending. Because the Specialty Fonts can be made without special inks or equipment, there are no extra supply costs or additional steps required during printing. Users can embed the security feature as a normal part of their printing process.
The four specialty texts are:
- MicroText™ - prints text as small as .01", small enough to print a 100-page book on a single sheet of 8.5" by 11" paper.
- GlossText® - prints text so that the content is not visible in straight-on view, but becomes visible as gloss under inclined illumination. The GlossText cannot be copied or duplicated.
- Correlation Mark™ - prints text so that the content is only visible when a "key" transparency is superimposed. Again, this ensures the document you have is an original.
- FluorescentText - prints text so that the content is virtually invisible under normal light but becomes visible under UV/black-light. However, this text would not be visible under the UV/black-light if the document were copied or altered.
"This award is a validation of the FreeFlow Collection's remarkable security capabilities and Xerox's ongoing commitment to innovation," said Quincy Allen, president, Xerox Production Systems Group. "This technology has opened up a new revenue stream for print providers to capture additional print jobs such as security badges, coupons and invitations."
With Xerox's powerful FreeFlow Print Server 6.0, the FreeFlow VI Interpreter software, and VIPP Pro page description language, Xerox specialty image text technologies are 100 percent variable. Print providers can add security features that are unique to each and every document. With conventional security methods, a single counterfeit document can be copied to produce many forgeries; with the Xerox security elements linked to variable-data printing, every document is unique and a counterfeit attempt would result in only a single counterfeit copy. This new technology makes it extremely costly for counterfeiters to fake documents on a large scale, and minimizes potential losses caused by piracy and fraud.
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